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The 2019 Annual International Strutter's Room Master Camp

San Francisco invites you to experience the undocumented inner-city Black dance culture of 1970s Fillmore Strutting.

2020 Master Camp Price: $700
2019 Master Camp Price: $350
2019 Master Camp Early Bird Special (Before June 1st): $175
2019 AAACC Student Special (Reserved through AAACC): $75

Before it was called "Popping" and before it was considered "Pop", the inner-cities of Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco were home to a regional street culture with unique dance expressions known as Boogaloo, Robottin and Struttin. With the competitive nature emerging out of the 1960's and dominating Bay Area dance scene throughout the 1970's, these "BRS" funk styles were positive outlets of urban expression that served as an alternative to street activity, much like the East Coast equivalent of breakdancing.

San Francisco's Fillmore Strutting tradition can be documented as far back as 1975, with groups such as Granny & the Robotroids, Live Incorporated, Monty and the Mechanical Midgets, and Close Encounters of the Funkiest Kind. Similar to Boogaloo & Robottin, Strutting culture was never adequately explored by mainstream media because its community ties would not easily compromise its traditional values to align with corporate interests. The BRS story of origin would soon be overshadowed in the 1980's by the emerging "Hip Hop" urban narrative of street dance out of New York, leaving the untold history of the Bay Area inner-city Black dance expression that came to influence an entire generation of Hip Hop dancers and "poppers" largely unknown to the general public.

For the entire week of leading up to the Juneteenth Festival, one of the Fillmore's most beloved public figures, co-founder of BRS Arts Alliance and founder of The Strutter's Room, international Hip Hop dance icon and A-list Strutter Lonnie "The Fillmore Kid" Green a.k.a. PopTart, opens the doors to the African American Art & Culture Complex with the 2019 Annual International Strutter's Room Master Camp for dancers all over the world who are looking to get their information directly from the source - the SF community that pioneered the 1970's style of dance that can only be called one thing: Strutting.

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5PM: Doors Open

5:30: Homeroom Orientation

6PM: The History of Boogaloo - Robottin - Struttin - Special Guest Panel

6:15: Language Arts: Strutting Terminologies

6:30: Film Class

6:45: The Science of Strutting Groups

7:00: The Math of Strutting: Counts, Steps, Routines

7:15: Arts & Crafts: Props & Costumes

7:30: The Arts & Crafts of Strutting

7:45: Extended Gym

8PM: Field Trip - Hamilton Recreation Center

Past Events

Grown Folks Back to the 70's & 80's Party

CREATURE MAN & BENZO PRESENTS:

Grown Folks Back to the 70's & 80's Party

Friday March 29th

Doors open at 8pm

9pm to 2am

Featuring DIS-JOCKEY

DR. FUNK

$15 in advance

$20 at the door

1st place $250 Soultrain Dance Contest

@FILLMORE HERITAGE CENTER

1330 FILLMORE ST

21+ 70'S & 80'S Formal Attire Required

www.FillmoreHeritageCenter.org

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Cypher Culture Conference

With great honor & respect, we are extremely excited to present the legendary, an OG and pioneer of San Francisco Strutting:

Lonnie “Pop Tart” Green

Pop Tart will be teaching a 3 hour Strutter’s Room Camp during the conference; Friday, April 26th. 2pm - 5pm at New Expressive Works. There he will select 4 dancers to join him for a special performance during The Book of Styles competition the next day! Don’t miss that opportunity!

He will also be doing a Q&A discussion panel, which will be recorded live and released on the Thread Count Podcast platform. Come pick the OG’s brain!

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